Jaycut

I really liked jaycut. This is an online streaming website that allows the users to create and edit videos.  For this assignment we were asked to create  a video.  This website was very easy to use. All you had to do was upload your videos and you were done. For instance, I already was working on a video for another class so I decided to take this video and combine it with another video in this class. My theme was "Interuptions". In this video I just showed how you could be watching something good and all of sudden a breaking news report interupts your programming. It was cool and I had fun with this.  Jaycut allowed the user to add text, music, and tranistions to the video. Also did I mention it was free.  Jaycut is a great tool to use if you don’t want spend any money on a professional video and editor.  For someone like me, it was fun because it allowed me to be creative and show my skills.  If you feel the same way I do then jaycut would be a good tool to use. On the other hand the only down fall to jaycut is how slow it is.  By it being an online streaming video editor it took so long to load or preview your movies. Using this website will take patience and effort.  Sometimes it  got so slow that it took five minutes for a 2 minute video to play.  Don’t get me wrong if you have put the time and effort into it, waiting to see your finished product will not be a problem. To future users I suggest you use  web browers such as safari or internet explorer to launch this website because it is just a little bit faster than firefox. As you can see I have embedded my video. Take the time, enjoy, and ask yourself " have something like this every happen to you?". If so you can see why I took this approach for creating a video like this.

Audacity

Audacity was a project that I was unfamiliar with but it was something  I always wanted to do was mix music. For this assignment we were ask to take make a commercial well at least I did.  My commercial was a commericial about my own mixing studio.  I thought this would be fun to do but when I was doing the work I realized it wasn’t so easy to do.  For instance, I wanted to use music that was on  my computer to make me feel like I was actually mixing some music. I tried one my songs on my computer but soon realized it would not allow me to put in to audacity because it was not an mp3 format.  Being new to this I didn’t know how to convert my files to mp3 so it would be allowed to use in audacity. I played with it and played with it, still no luck. I got frustrated until I start searching for converter web sites. I downloaded one but it still didn’t recognize it in audacity so I had to do the best I could do. One of the things I found interesting was that it had all types of neat things you could like the sounds and effects. I think this made audacity a little bit easier. I finally thought of a way I could use the music I had and it came out pretty good.  As you can see at bottom I have a link to the music or commercial I created and mix using my voice and music and sound effects. Take a listen to it.  It was alright quality because I was unaware how it made me sound but I think I did good for the most part. In essence, audacity gave me a little trouble but I think I managed to do well on it. This lesson also taught me that a lot of time and effort goes along with it. Maybe mixing music might not be for me after all. Even though this is for mixing music, I found it useful to use as a way to do other things such as PSAs. I had to do a PSA for another class and it was so much easier to use. Overall Audacity is a good tool to use, I guess it just takes time and patience to use it to the best of its ability.
http://www.screencast.com/users/chriskells/folders/Default/media/8ee70338-094c-4035-a5dd-a48e12dfbda1